# SARS-CoV-2
## Translingual

Wikispecies

### Etymology

SARS-CoV +‎ 2

### Proper noun

SARS-CoV-2
* (virology) Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2; a virus which causes COVID-19 coronavirus disease, first discovered in 2019, in an outbreak that started in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
** For quotations using this term, see Citations:SARS-CoV-2.

#### Synonyms

(virus):
* 2019-nCoV (former name)
* HCoV-19, hCoV-19

#### Hypernyms

* (virus): Riboviria – realm; Orthornavirae – kingdom; Pisuviricota – phylum; Pisoniviricetes – class; Nidovirales – order; Cornidovirineae – suborder; Coronaviridae – family; Orthocoronavirinae - subfamily; Betacoronavirus - genus; Sarbecovirus - subgenus (per NCBI)

#### Hyponyms

(virus): The number of variants and their names shows a dynamic growth. See e.g. Variant_of_concern
* B.1.1.248 (“Brazilian variant, Gamma variant”)
* B.1.1.529 (“Omikron variant”)
* B.1.1.7 (“UK variant, Alpha variant”)
* B.1.351 (“South African variant, Beta variant”)
* B.1.617.2 (“Delta variant”)
* SARS-CoV-2 VOC

#### Coordinate terms

(virus):
* BANAL-103, BANAL-20-103
* BANAL-236, BANAL-20-236
* BANAL-52, BANAL-20-52
* RmYN02
* RpYN06
* SARSr-Ra-BatCoV-RaTG13, BatCoV-RaTG13, RaTG13
(viral components)
* N501 (spike protein coding)
* E484 (spike protein coding)
* K417 (protein coding)

#### Related terms

(virus):
* CoV
* MERS-CoV
* MERSr-CoV
* nCoV
* SARS
* SARS-CoV
* SARS-CoV-1
* SARSr-CoV

### References

* ↑ BioRxviv, "Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus – The species and its viruses, a statement of the Coronavirus Study Group", Alexander E. Gorbalenya, 11 February 2020, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, Coronavirus Study Group

### Further reading

* SARS-CoV-2 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* SARS-CoV-2 on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* SARS-CoV-2 on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* SARS-CoV-2 at National Center for Biotechnology Information

## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɑːz ˈkəʊviː ˈtuː/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈsɑɹz ˈkoʊvi ˈtu/

### Proper noun

SARS-CoV-2
* (virology) SARS-CoV-2; SARS-related coronavirus 2
** 2020 April, Lu, Xiaoxia, Liqiong Zhang, Hui Du, Jingjing Zhang, Yuan Y. Li, Jingyu Qu, Wenxin Zhang et al., “SARS-CoV-2 infection in children”, in New England Journal of Medicine, volume 382, number 17, →DOI:As of March 10, 2020, the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been responsible for more than 110,000 infections and 4000 deaths worldwide, but data regarding the epidemiologic characteristics and clinical features of infected children are limited.
** 2021 June, Krause, Philip R., Thomas R. Fleming, Ira M. Longini, Richard Peto, Sylvie Briand, David L. Heymann, Valerie Beral, Matthew D. Snape, Helen Rees, Alba-Maria Ropero, Ran D. Balicer, Jakob P. Cramer, et al., “SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Vaccines”, in New England Journal of Medicine, →DOI:In addition to continuing to track the emergence of new variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there are four major priorities for the global response to variants of concern.

#### Synonyms

* Chinese virus
* COVID-19 virus
* novel coronavirus 2019
* Wuhan coronavirus
* Wuhan virus

#### Hypernyms

* coronavirus
* virus

#### Coordinate terms

* influenza
* MERS-related coronavirus

#### Related terms

* SARS-related coronavirus